Wedge or Teardrop?

[LCGuy]

Lol...but on top of that they're also good for ensuring that USB ports are functioning.

 

[Mr. 680x0]

I think we can all agree that all of the mice mentioned are WAY better than the iMac hockey puck mouse. [xx(] ]'>

Does anyone still use those?

I do! What's wrong with the puck mice? They match the G3 iMacs. I haven't seen another mouse that matches my Tangerine trayloader as well as the puck mice do. I prefer the later ones with the indent though.

Between the ADB I or ADB II, I prefer the ADB I. It's more clicky. Over the ADB I mouse I prefer trackballs, like my Kensington TurboMouse 5.0.

 

[Dan 7.1]

I think we can all agree that all of the mice mentioned are WAY better than the iMac hockey puck mouse. [xx(] ]'>

Does anyone still use those?

I do! What's wrong with the puck mice? They match the G3 iMacs. I haven't seen another mouse that matches my Tangerine trayloader as well as the puck mice do. I prefer the later ones with the indent though.

i mostly agree, i think the puck mice work just fine. and i like the originals before the indent, the indent always annoyed me.

 

[LCGuy]

Same...they do feel uncomfortable after a while, but to be honest they're not that bad. I keep mine around as a spare for testing USB ports, and when i'm charging up the batts for my cordless mouse.

 

[QuadSix50]

Well, if I come across any of them I'll send them your way. I just can't stand them. I can at least moderately tolerate the one with the indent, but the non-indented one just keeps moving out of place, requiring me to look down at intervals to make sure that it hasn't moved again....that just ends up wasting my time. Maybe as a collector's item or as a USB test device as mentioned earlier, but it's just not practical IMO for regular use. :-/

 

[LCGuy]

Yeah...mine's an indented one, thank God...you gotta have an indented one or else its very difficult to feel which way is up.

 

[Dan 7.1]

i used one for a good year, first on my imac then on my yosemite until i got a two button logitech mouse. nothing really wrong with the puck, but having two buttons and a scroll wheel are just much more convenient.

 

[The Macster]

nothing really wrong with the puck, but having two buttons and a scroll wheel are just much more convenient.

They just look a really uncomfortable shape to hold - there must be a reason why all other mice are roughly the conventional shape and not round! Are they not uncomfortable? I wouldn't mind having one/some for collectability purposes though!

 

[Patrickool93]

I like the Puck mice. I had a MacAlley mouse that matched my iMac, but it was crappy.

I've never used the ADB Mouse I, but I only like some ADB Mouse II's, as some have a crappier, lighter ball.

 

[Dan 7.1]

nothing really wrong with the puck, but having two buttons and a scroll wheel are just much more convenient.

They just look a really uncomfortable shape to hold - there must be a reason why all other mice are roughly the conventional shape and not round! Are they not uncomfortable? I wouldn't mind having one/some for collectability purposes though!

well its a hate it or love it design, definitely, but for me it doesn't get any better than the first day i opened up my imac (with a whopping 96MB ram and a 4GB HD thx very much), got out the mini-keyboard and the usb puck mouse and started playing Quake.

ahh...those were the days.

 

[MacTCP]

I like the puck mice. They smell good.

I like the wedge and teardrop about the same. I actually have a completely new, untouched, ADB Mouse I in its original bag which came in the Q700 accessory kit that I bought.

 

[MacMan]

I wonder if anyone has ever removed the cable from a puck mouse and used it as an actual hockey puck? My parents use one on the iMac, mainly because that's the original mouse that came with it.

Probably my favourite Apple mouse out of all of them is the "brick", mentioned earlier. I've got one for my Mac Plus and I like the "squashy" click of the button.

 

[Mr. 680x0]

I wonder if anyone has ever removed the cable from a puck mouse and used it as an actual hockey puck? My parents use one on the iMac, mainly because that's the original mouse that came with it.

Hehe, if I ever come across a non working puck mouse, I'll do that. I just can't destroy working Apple hardware.

 

[QuadSix50]

I wonder if anyone has ever removed the cable from a puck mouse and used it as an actual hockey puck? My parents use one on the iMac, mainly because that's the original mouse that came with it.
Probably my favourite Apple mouse out of all of them is the "brick", mentioned earlier. I've got one for my Mac Plus and I like the "squashy" click of the button.

Or you could tie two of them together and create a bolo.

 

[Dan 7.1]

Puck-Chucks.

 

[luddite]

I think we can all agree that all of the mice mentioned are WAY better than the iMac hockey puck mouse. [xx(] ]'>

Does anyone still use those?

I would if it hadn't succumbed (along with the keyboard) to a large coffee spill. I'm probably the only adult I know who actually prefers the puck (and I have fairly big hands).

 

[madmax_2069]

i love useing the teardrop, for one its comfortable on the hand. but the drawback is that the button is exposed more than the wedge design mouse you will get a few click's off and not release you have your finger close to the button or you hit the side of the mouse against something and what ever you hit will click it.

i don't like the wedge mouse cause after awhile it starts to hurt your hand but the good pint is is that the button is in a great place and isnt as easy to trigger a click cause of a finger with a mind of its own or by bumping it into something or by picking it up.

but i would rather use the tear drop design cause like i said its easier on the hand

 

[heebiejeebies]

Heh,
http://www.oldmouse.com/pics/xerox/RG-AltoTop.jpg

Xerox Alto mouse and

http://www.oldmouse.com/pics/xerox/XeroxStar.jpg

Xerox Star mouse. Looks like IBM tried to copy the Star mouse.

Awesome, I was in a print centre yesterday and they had a big copier/printer that had a screen that looked like a Xerox star, with one of those star mice. Looked like a fairly new machine despite that, though. ;D

 

[fidel]

I now prefer the teardrop for the exterior feel/comfort factor; it fits the hand better than the wedge, I think. When I can, though, I change the switch in either for a cheaper switch from a PC mouse - quieter, easier clicks. The Plus' brick mouse always irked me - it usually squeaks, and you have to press so much harder than with later mice. Or that's the impression.

Mouse peeves:

- rollers so encrusted with crud (skin-dust, pore-grease, cat hairs, etc.) that you feel like you're passing your hand over a stuccoed surface when you sweep the mouse from side-to-side;

- eleventeen-button mouses; and,

- glide-shmutz, the layer of the (presumably) same crud as found on rollers that, in this instance, causes the mouse to sweep so sluggishly it's an effort to move it at all.

The scroll-wheel is highly over-rated. In fact, everything beyond a single button is over-rated.

I'm currently using a Kensington ADB TurboMouse trackball (no right-click) and an indented puck mouse on my Beige tower (still with it!). Somewhere on the desk in front of me, beneath several geological strata of miscellaneous cables, papers, and bits and pieces of everything, I have a scroll-wheel USB Mouse-in-a-Box (trash-picked, but known to work, and not much missed), and a swoopy-n-swishy Logitech scroll-wheel dingus with that strange little button under your right thumb... I'd installed the software for the latter, but got bored with it...

I've recently pulled the trackball from a wrecked PB1x0 and have briefly tested it as an ADB device. Worked fine until one or two of my hastily-soldered connections on the underside of the board gave out. Current plan is to solder a section of ADB cable to a ribbon cable which will, in turn, be properly inserted into the little socket on the upper side of the circuit board... Then there's the matter of making the section of the PB's wrist-wrest flow gracefully down to the surface of the desk (probably by kerfing the underside somehow, and notching the forward/near face so that I can bend things to my will)...

Projects. Too many projects.

 

[macintoshman]

I prefer the wedge.

It is so unique!